Alex Tichauer, a UA School of Journalism junior, talks to Fathead employee Kate Ritter. Ritter talks about how she got started and what she does at Fathead, a popular blown-glass retailer.

"Untitled from the Saguaro Rubbing Series" is among the works on display by David Kish, from March 1 through June 19 at the Tucson International Airport, 7250 S Tucson Blvd.
There is an artist reception from 1 to 5 p.m., today, Sunday, April 25 in the Upper Link Gallery. (There is free parking for those attending the reception)

Working under the hood of a car can be dangerous and unsafe; just ask Sooter's shop foreman Paul Wesner in this multimedia slideshow by Corey Lueker, a sophomore from the UA School of Journalism.

The Art Center Design College is proud to present "An Evening of Poetry with Rebecca Seiferle."

Rebecca is a renowned poet and a member of the core faculty at the Art Center. Rebecca is a winner of the Western States Book Award and a recipient of the Lannan Fellowship. This year, she was she an invited speaker at Scotland's International Poetry Festival, a featured presenter at Vanderbilt University and just returned from speaking at the Associated Writing Programs Conference in Denver. Publisher’s Weekly says, “With a bitter, withering irony and an eye for shocking beauty… Seiferle cuts straight to the emotionally honest kernel within family, spirit and myth.”

Rebecca will be joined by Art Center colleagues and students for this most enjoyable evening. There will also be visual works on display from several of The Art Center programs of study including Graphic Design, Fine Art, Photography, Animation, and Interior Design.

Public Invited - Free Admission.

Where:
The Art Center Design College
Florence Quater Gallery
2538 N Country Club Rd
520-325-1234

When:
7 p.m., Thursday, April 22, reception following

"Happy Jack," by Matthew Yates, is on display in Tucson Saguaro Photography Invitational, continuing through May 3 at Temple Gallery in the Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave.

Jazmine Woodberry, a junior at the UA School of Journalism, gives us an inside look at popular bike shop Fairwheel Bikes, and employee Terry Womer.

RC Bicycle's bike doctor talks about his history in this multimedia project by UA School of Journalism junior Timothy Arrigo.

Written by Josh T. Saunders/El Independiente

• KAITE FLYNN
• First-graders sing a song with their teachers who are opera singers.

Elementary and middle school students in the Tucson Unified School District are benefiting from a program called Opening Minds Through the Arts (OMA), which uses the arts to teach math, science, reading and writing basics.

OMA has grown from a pilot-project in three TUSD schools to a nationally recognized program over the last decade.

“OMA is a school reform program that utilizes the arts to boost student academic achievement as well as their social growth,” said Dr. Joan Ashcraft, the director of fine and performing arts for TUSD.

Ashcraft said the program’s goal is to build resiliency, global perspective, collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving and innovation skills.

The program was created bas ed on research on the neurological development of children, which found significant connections be tween brain dev elopment and mu sic, Ashcraft said.

As part of the Etcetera series at Live Theater Workshop, 5317 E. Speedway Blvd., White People opens tonight at 10:30 p.m. The play, by J.T. Rogers, shows Fridays and Saturdays at 10:30 p.m., through May 1. Tickets are $10 at the door. Call 327-4242 for reservations.

Read a New York Times review of another production of the play here.

In this second of four parts, UA School of Journalism student Joshua Morgan takes us into the back shop of JJ Bicycles and gives us a look at a work day in the shop with owner Jose Villegas.